{"id":6425,"date":"2015-09-07T07:43:58","date_gmt":"2015-09-07T07:43:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/?p=6425"},"modified":"2015-09-07T07:43:58","modified_gmt":"2015-09-07T07:43:58","slug":"beyond-esd-but-not-at-the-sharp-end","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/2015\/09\/07\/beyond-esd-but-not-at-the-sharp-end\/","title":{"rendered":"Beyond ESD: but not at the sharp end"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Learning from the sharp end \u2013 implications for sustainability in Higher Education<\/em> is an international symposium taking place today and tomorrow\u00a0in Bristol. \u00a0It seems to be trying to go 'beyond ESD', for which much praise. \u00a0It\u00a0is jointly organised by University of Bristol and UWE (Bristol), and supported by the UNESCO SIDS Partnership \u2018Learning from the Sharp End of Environmental Uncertainty\u2019, and the NUS. \u00a0It is part of a wide programme of activities for Bristol\u2019s year as the European Green Capital for 2015. \u00a0The full details are <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.google.com\/site\/beyondesd\/home\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Back in the Spring, I was invited to be a member of its\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/sites.google.com\/site\/beyondesd\/details\/organisers\">Scientific Committee<\/a> (that had a fine\u00a0European ring to it, I felt), and I was happy to accept. \u00a0I have to say that this has\u00a0not proved to be an onerous task. \u00a0In fact, since the invitation,\u00a0there has been no communication at all \u2013 apart from regular emails that went to everyone in\u00a0the SHED. \u00a0Whilst I did not expect to be\u00a0very actively involved, I did expect something. \u00a0It's all rather\u00a0odd.<\/p>\n<p>For what my retiring name is worth these days, I rather feel it has been used.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Learning from the sharp end \u2013 implications for sustainability in Higher Education is an international symposium taking place today and tomorrow\u00a0in Bristol. \u00a0It seems to be trying to go 'beyond ESD', for which much praise. \u00a0It\u00a0is jointly organised by University...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":237,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6425","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-comment","category-news-and-updates"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6425","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/237"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6425"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6425\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6425"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6425"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6425"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}